Stories of Women in Baseball

Stories that highlight the lives and experiences of women in baseball through key moments in history.

Dennis Eckersley saved every game of the 1988 American League Championship Series en route to Most Valuable Player honors.

Winner to be announced Dec. 11 at baseball’s Winter Meetings.

Luis Mayoral, a close friend and confidante of Roberto Clemente, was by the Hall of Famer's side the day he recorded his 3,000th and final hit.

Baseball has shown us the best of humankind on and off the field.

Bursting onto the national scene in the 1978 World Series, Bob Welch's career featured 211 wins, two championships and one Cy Young Award.

In 2006, Joe Mauer became the first catcher in American League history to win a batting title.

The Yankees’ first Cy Young Award winner piled up strikeouts and walks at a record rate.

The Hall of Fame pitcher's finest season saw him lead the American League in wins, innings, starts and complete games.

Residents of Otsego County receive free admission to Fenimore Art Museum, The Farmers’ Museum and Hall of Fame.

Museum’s Black Baseball Initiative, with support from NBT Bank, provides students opportunity to learn how baseball and American culture intersect.

The Class of 2023 inductee returned to Cooperstown in support of the Pathfinder Village-Baseball Hall of Fame Golf Invitational.

James Earl Jones, a generational voice of the stage and screen, spoke about baseball's influence on his career during a 2004 visit.

One of the game's most renown speedsters, Lou Brock set a new stolen base standard on Sept. 10, 1974.

The 1989 National League Cy Young Award winner was the seventh relief pitcher to earn the honor.

The Athletics ace was the first left-hander to win 30 games in more than three decades.

The 1964 Cy Young Award winner was the Angels' first ace and one of the American League's most durable starters of the decade.